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How long does it take to read The Glass Cage?

Nicholas G. Carr

The Glass Cage by Nicholas G. Carr takes about 5 hours 4 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 5 hours 4 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2014. 276 pages, about 75,900 words.

11 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 8 hours 26 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 5 hours 4 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 10 minutes

The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

At once a celebration of technology and a warning about its misuse, The Glass Cage will change the way you think about the tools you use every day. In The Glass Cage, best-selling author Nicholas Carr digs behind the headlines about factory robots and self-driving cars, wearable computers and digitized medicine, as he explores the hidden costs of granting software dominion over our work and our leisure and reveals something we already suspect: shifting our attention to computer screens can leave us disengaged and discontented. This book explores the impact of automation from a deeply human perspective, examining the personal as well as the economic consequences of our growing dependence on computers. - Publisher.

Subjects: Social aspects, Technology, Automation, Technology, social aspects, Automation, social aspects

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